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Trafficator

Definition: Trafficator

Trafficator

Noun

1. A blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Trafficator

Synonyms: blinker (n), turn indicator (n), turn signal (n). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Trafficator

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

semaphore trafficator

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Trafficator

Language Translations for "trafficator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏إشارة ألإتجاه. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

方向指示器. (various references)

   

Danish

  

retningsviser med bevaegelig arm (moving arm indicator). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

richtingaanwijzer met beweegbare arm of pijl (moving arm indicator). (various references)

   

French

  

indicateur de changement de direction bras ou flèche mobiles, flèche de direction. (various references)

   

German

  

Winker (direction indicator, indicator), richtungsanzeiger, Fahrtrichtungsanzeiger mit beweglichem Arm oder Pfeil (moving arm indicator), fahrtrichtungsanzeiger (direction indicator). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δείκτης αλλαγής κατεύθυνσης με βραχίονες και κινητά βέλη (moving arm indicator). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

irányjelző (index, traffic indicator). (various references)

   

Italian

  

indicatore di cambio di direzione a braccio o freccia mobili (moving arm indicator). (various references)

   

Manx

  

meekeyder (blinkard, indicator, winker), cowrey troa. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

afficatortray

   

Portuguese

  

indicador de mudança de direcção com braço ou seta móveis (moving arm indicator), indicador da direção. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

указатель поворота (directional signal). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

färdriktningsvisare (blinker, indicator). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Trafficator

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-f-f-i-o-r-r-t-t"

-3 letters: aircraft, artifact, tartaric.

-4 letters: citator, ricotta, tractor, traffic, traitor.

-5 letters: affair, aortic, carrot, cottar, factor, forrit, fracti, raffia, taffia, tariff, tartar, tricot, trocar.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Trafficator


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 72 61 66 66 69 63 61 74 6F 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .-.    .-    ..-.    ..-.    ..    -.-.    .-    -    ---    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01100110 01100110 01101001 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#102 &#102 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#116 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 0066 0066 0069 0063 0061 0074 006F 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5484677272756967868184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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